Opinion: Iran’s Charm Offensive

American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow John Bolton on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Tuesday speech to the United Nations.

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I ... I ... I ... I ... thus the documentary Joseph ... but when it comes to launch nuclear weapons program ... the only difference between them is this ... ultimately jawed was a wolf in Wolf's clothing ... when one is a war ... machine clue ... old Wold who thinks he can pull the odds the wool over the odds ... of the international community ... those Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the UN this week warning about Iran's nuclear program and ... here tells Barron's Ambassador John Bolton joining us from watching a master thanks for being here ... when India ... were saying what people of described as a diplomatic charm offensive from or ran and eight Mr aligning the new leader there I ... I might miss the charming part but what what isn't exactly the to re and has done lately to warrant ... but no a willingness on the part of the Obama administration to negotiate with them ... well absolutely nothing and that's what's so depressing about the success of this charm offensive ... you know that that that debate for the past ten years in Iran between moderates on the one hand and hardliners on the other ... has not been about whether they're gonna get nuclear weapons there all agree on that that debate is Dan a PR today ... the hardliners like to publicly call a bad sweeping Israel into the sea like ... Ahmed in Asia I they like having their pictures taken walking through the centrifuges at Natanz ... the moderates on the other hand ... don't wanna talk about any these things they waddle Oval West into a feeling of complacency ... but continue to do exactly the same things on the nuclear weapons program I've to say ... the moderates have a much more sensible PR sense than the hard liners do and that's what rule Hana's deal and ... were freezing something that he did ten years ago ... so while the Europeans into ... a complacency about the efforts that they were undertaking then it's the same playbook it was successful for a ride and I'm very much freer will be successful for them here as well ok and we're seeing the same drive to develop nuclear weapons were seeing the same support for terrorism that we saw under previous ... rulers their ... catalog absolutely I mean there's been no change whatever in the level of support financial and otherwise for the Assad regime in Syria for the aid being given a has blocked ... both in Levanon and to fight in Syria ... and financial support for terrorist around the world the ... the rhetoric is only marginally different it's enough to doll gullible Westerners ... but the fact is that the the the house on Rue HEINY ... is not the head of the ... state and government of ... Iran that still the Supreme leader the Ayatollah Khomeini who controls specifically ... the nuclear weapons program so ... we'll money is it best that the number two official on Iran for their job I'd you ... know we've seen of incorrectly are fueling a wrong here but I think the United States and of ... worldwide sanctions ... have been fairly effective five cutting off to rein in access to the international banking system ... has not been the kind of their economy to their currency ... I'm assuming you've really bad diet are you worried that those sanctions are now going to be tossed aside here is the Obama administration without getting really anything substantive from or ramp ... seeks to show our reasonable we are ... now I think that's exactly what's gonna happen I went over ... state the effect of the sanctions I think ok on top of thirty years of economic mismanagement by the Islamic Revolution yes indeed they have had an effect ... and they've had a particularly pronounced effect on the Iranian middle class which by the way ... is the aspect of Iranian society ... most opposed to the Ayatollah so with unerring accuracy are sanctions referred ... the people who are most sympathetic to our point of you that don't think the Iranians haven't been expert at invading the sanction of the biggest ... Iranian diplomatic facility in the world is their embassy in ... Caracas Venezuela ... why because it's a good place to Launder money ... who could face a aggressor ... thank you ... I ... it was getting help from the federal government specifically of the White House the Obama administration but the Alicia family is here to tells about it then ... I understand from the government we are not supposed to call this a bailout is O'Brien on it ... so its money from ... the federal government to the city of Detroit which is currently a ... non bankrupting operating under of ... the of of I'm sorry what we call Kevyn Orr he is in ... an emergency manager ... and this is of three hundred of some million ... but it's not a bell ... inside it said Cronk one a half its eye on that helps ... two camps ... and helps in Oregon public transportation ... under forty million dollars dollars for public transportation thirty million dollars for public CP that includes hiring ... firefighters ... and and I believe the hundred and fifty million dollars ... to remove blight helped with three developments okay so the of the ... assuming of for people in the Detroit they would probably agree the of the city could use ... more of those services is currently a ... struggling under the weight of its pension obligations ... what is the of ... one of the eye of the federal government has ... what is the city of excess funds but they clearly don't go running huge deficits or maybe that would be one knock against it ... also I would suppose this may be isn't necessarily of the message you wanna send them ... to other cities that make it in this condition all yet I mean once you get ... it right this money why not stop in California which is also being from suffering from high time ... I want the same issues so why not openly tells Laszlo Cryan and play ... a mean word you drop a line here ... and ... in the absence of this funding in Detroit ... the news of Mr. is Mr. we're saying we gotta have this money or of the plan won't work ... if you don't have room federal interventions of what happens to Detroit well basically gone and restructure acting like he was planning on restructuring the richer pensions retiree health care he can restructure the debt in fact there are ... printing like eighteen one point two five billion dollars from the savings from restructuring this and cutting some these obligations ... and reinvesting in these kinds of things public see the ... transportation by now ... now they have ... the last fence we have more money ... into the unions will probably say well will know you have more money ... action will be to cut pensions will each have retiree health care who disagrees we gotta go quickly but the of the store obviously accepted the money but I do wonder doesn't ... it doesn't weaken the argument that he is trying to say ... we need to accept the new realities on pensions on contract some of the city spending in employment the ... I would think this also creates an expectation that maybe more money will be coming from Washington well actually Debbie Stabenow lad that Michigan Sen has said this is just the first ... unit is more to come ... ALM so this age as your whining who knows there may be actually more com mania I and later markets whatever they can find in them after seizing on a mixed in ... with the White House can find different writing ... he did try to taxpayers the war in the the bailout era has not ended thanks Alicia ... and they stayed for joining us today please come back every week that one Eastern for opinion Journal of thanks ...